· Private foundation
Kim and John Schlifske Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $660k
- $250k+2 grants · $786k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL | $475,000 |
| SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY | $310,714 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC | $185,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE I INC | $125,000 |
| THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JOURNEY 21 | $50,025 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $44,200 |
| ELMBROOK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE MOTHER MARY CORPORATION | $30,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $15,000 |
| ST MARY'S VISITATION CATHOLIC PARISH | $15,000 |
| ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| THE WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND LIBERTY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $371k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LOLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL5× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +5%
- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $375k · revenue +185%
DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC2× · 2023–2025 · $235k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- MCMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue -92%
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTYone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -20%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
To promote the welfare of and advance the objectives of the university of wisconsin-madison by encouraging the interest, engagement, and financial support of alumni, donors, and friends in the life of the university and with each other.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the most unlike its peers is Robert Conner Dawes Fund Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Womens Care Center of Milwaukee Mother Mary Corp ↗
- Who funds Journey 21 Inc ↗
- Who funds Elmbrook Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT CONNER DAWES FUND LTD ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN K MACIVER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds MCC SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRYON RIESCH PARALYSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Arzbaecher Family Foundation · Lannon Stone Foundation Inc · Marcus Corporation Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kim and John Schlifske Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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